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A site on Anonymous' target list defaced by a pro-Palestinian group.

It was a busy weekend for Palestinian Hamas militants, the Israeli Defense Forces, and the growing army of hackers who seem determined to answer every Israeli barrage of the Gaza strip with a digital broadside of their own.

As the shelling of Gaza in exchange for rockets fired into Israel reached its sixth day Monday, hackers from the collective Anonymous released a new "Phase II" list of more than three hundred Israeli government websites they intended to knock offline, at least dozens of which were unreachable Sunday night, including sites devoted to trade, immigration, and the office of the president. Beyond mere "denial of service" tactics that blocked sites with floods of junk data, the hackers also ramped up their attacks to penetrations of any vulnerable target available to them, resulting in tens of thousands of Israeli citizens' and supporters' private data dumped onto the Web.

"It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries," claimed an Anonymous press statement Sunday, though an Internet shutdown in the Gaza strip wasn't confirmed by other news reports. "November 2012 will be a month to remember for the Israeli defense forces and internet security forces. Israeli Gov. this is/will turn into a cyberwar."

The statement then linked to what the group claimed was the personal data of 5,000 Israeli government officials. In fact, the hacked data was actually a much larger collection of 35,000 names, phone numbers, addresses and emails of Israeli citizens, taken from an unknown origin and posted to a collection of compromised domains Friday night by a hacker using the pseudonym "Gaza Hacher."

Another three thousand email addresses, phone numbers and addresses of those Anonymous described as "Israeli supporters"--again taken from an unknown source--were posted online Sunday, including the information of some U.S. congressional representatives. And several thousand more users' email addresses and other personal data were taken from seemingly random Israeli targets like the real estate website Dirot Modiin, Connections Magazine and the mailing list of what another Anonymous release described as the "Israel Coalition."

"We dislike Israel, we dislike Jews even more," read the statement posted with the last of that list of data spills, which consisted of mostly government officials' email addresses. "So, all you fucked up baby-killing government officials can get spammed back to the 90's when your router got fried."

The hackers' stream of attacks, which they're calling "OpIsrael," began on Wednesday, just as Israel's military began its artillery assault on the Gaza Strip. After Anonymous published a list of 91 target sites, many were quickly taken offline or defaced. One allied hacker group calling itself the Muslim Liberation Army vandalized sites with a message that "we are outraged at the Palestine present condition and the illegal occupation of Palestinian Land By the Zionist Israelis," which continues to display on several of the hacked sites.

Anonymous' attacks, of course, hardly register compared with the physical damage inflicted by both sides in the Gaza conflict. At least 95 Gazans have died as a result of Israel's attacks and 740 have been wounded, by NBC news' count. The Israeli Defense Force's twitter feed has boasted that it's fired artillery at more than 1,300 Hamas' rocket launching sites, tunnels, training bases and police headquarters, even broadcasting several strikes on YouTube. On the other side, three Israelis have also been killed by Hamas rockets and dozens injured.

But the mass-hacking of Israeli targets has at least gotten the attention of the country's authorities. In an interview with the AFP Saturday, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said that the attacks had opened a "second front" in the Gaza fighting, claiming that the government had "deflected 44 million cyber attacks on government websites."

But Steinitz, speaking Saturday, said that the government remained nonplussed by the horde of hackers, and claimed that only one of the targeted websites went down for "six or seven minutes."

"This is an unprecedented attack, and our success has been greater than we anticipated," Steinitz said. With many more than that one site downed or breached by Anonymous' just a day after his comments, Steinitz may now be wondering just how much more "unprecedented" the hackers' attacks will become.